Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust Building a new NEWS Chase Farm Hospital SPRING 2018 This autumn the newest and most digitally advanced hospital in the NHS will open The new Chase Farm Hospital will provide a state of the art environment which will help us deliver an even better experience for our patients and staff. It will offer out-patient services including diagnostic tests, musculoskeletal therapies and women’s services. There will also be an urgent care centre, an older persons’ assessment unit, endoscopy and services for medical day cases including a chemotherapy unit. The hospital will also be the location for most of our elective (planned) surgery with eight main operating theatres, a dedicated day surgery area and 50 surgical in-patient beds to support this. How did we Construction get here? update A redevelopment of this size has taken major Building work has progressed at an exciting strategic planning and preparation. pace, keeping to both time and budget. The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust More than 400 workers, including electricians, lift committed to redeveloping Chase Farm Hospital, installers, floor layers and painters, are on site each making it fit for purpose to deliver 21st century day working hard to complete the building. The healthcare and to provide world class care close to outside of the building is finished and can be seen where our patients live, following the acquisition of from the viewing platform on top of the multi-storey Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust in July car park. 2014. Landscaping works are well underway including The future of the hospital as an elective site with the installation of a glass entrance canopy, new urgent care facilities had already been set out within footpaths around the building and creation of a the Barnet, Enfield and Haringey clinical strategy dedicated service yard. published in 2011. The construction of the new road junction to the Following engagement with key stakeholders and front of the hospital is nearly complete. This will strategic partners we obtained planning consent from provide a new vehicle and pedestrian access, as well Enfield Council in January 2016 and government as the introduction of a filter lane on The Ridgeway approval of our business case in March 2016. to help ease congestion. Preparation of the site began in September Power has been turned on in the new building and 2015, with demolition and enabling works. Main the construction team are getting building systems, construction work started a year later. such as the information technology and nurse call systems, fully commissioned and ready for use. Sir David Sloman, Royal Free London group chief executive, said: “The speed of the redevelopment of We have planned the redevelopment carefully so Chase Farm Hospital is unprecedented, taking only that all services remain operational and disruption to four years from inception and drawing board patients has been minimised. to completion. It brings into reality a new hospital for the residents of Enfield which was identified as being needed as early as 1973.” Children from Wilbury Primary School in Enfield have decorated the hoardings with pictures promoting good health Trees that had to make way for the new hospital are being put to good use by children in the hospital’s day nursery where they take pride of place in the outdoor play area Out of date masks and goggles have been given a new lease of life in a Bangladesh refugee camp thanks to a partnership with a charity led by Asghar Muhammad, intensive therapy unit charge nurse at the Royal Free Hospital Specialist equipment is being installed in the barn theatres Using our theatres in new and innovative ways The opening of the new Chase Farm Hospital Patient rooms on the surgical has given us a fantastic opportunity to use our in-patient floor are nearly complete hospitals in a different way. One key opportunity is to improve the way we use our theatres. Increasing our planned surgical work at Chase Farm Hospital will enable us to use our facilities and staff in the most effective and efficient way. It will Get well also help us to free up space at Barnet Hospital for medical and surgical emergencies and allow the Royal soon… in your Free Hospital to focus on specialist surgery. In particular, orthopaedics, ear, nose and throat, maxillofacial, general and gynaecological surgery will own room mostly be carried out at Chase Farm Hospital. Evidence shows that single hospital rooms There will be eight main operating theatres increase physical and psychological comfort, including four ‘barn theatres’ specifically designed reduce infection rates and improve patient for orthopaedic work. The term barn theatre refers satisfaction around privacy and dignity. to the open-plan design of our main surgical area, On the surgical in-patient floor there will be 50 beds where each patient will be treated in a dedicated in total, 42 of which are single rooms. Three of these space alongside the next patient, with a specialised rooms have the facility to be used as an enhanced air canopy over each station to prevent the spread surgical care unit. In addition there are two four- of infection. The barn theatres will have adjoining bedded bays for patients who may choose to be with anaesthetic rooms and traditional recovery areas. others, or for patients who might need to stay for a Benefits of barn theatres include lower infection rates short time following their stay in theatre recovery. and improved safety as surgeons can immediately seek The outlook from every patient bed space is to advice or a second opinion from their colleagues. surrounding countryside and all rooms make use of All theatres and out-patient clinics will run from natural light to create a space to promote wellbeing. 8am to 8pm each weekday, offering patients more choice and making sure all our new facilities are used most efficiently. Enough concrete to fill Preparing 1,500 for the move bath tubs was Construction of the new hospital poured every week will be complete by early June 2018. during the build Services will move into the new building in phases over the summer months before the hospital fully opens in autumn 2018. A significant amount of work is underway to ensure a safe, smooth transfer of patients, services and staff to the new hospital. All staff We will have5 endoscopy procedure rooms and volunteers are being trained to use the new equipment and technology to make sure they are familiar with every element of working in the new hospital before it opens to patients. with 16 single patient pods 154 apprentices have worked on the Patients build coming to the 1,000 concrete piles make new hospital up the hospital If you have an appointment over the summer foundations – the months it may be in the new Chase Farm equivalent of 10 miles! Hospital. If so, we will let you know where to go. From the autumn all patients will be seen in the new hospital. The total floor area of the hospital is in excess of 20,000m2. Staying That’s more than 75 tennis courts informed For more information visit www.royalfree.nhs.uk/chasefarm. There will be50 surgical in-patient beds, If you have any questions or comments about the new hospital please email: [email protected]. 42 of which are en-suite.